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by Izkata 387 days ago
> The vaccine significantly reduced severity of infection, likelihood to become infected at all, and likelihood of transmitting there infection.

The first was what the clinical trials tested for, the second and third were hopes that we never had confirmation of. And with how much the waves continued to spike everywhere afterwards, those two seem to have been false - that the mRNA vaccines only suppressed symptoms without reducing infection/transmission.